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envisage(dictionary)

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envisage verb trans. E19.
[French envisager, formed as EN-1, VISAGE.]
Look straight at. Chiefly fig., face up to (danger etc.). arch. E19.
Keats To envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty. R. Macaulay Two pairs of..eyes envisaged that remote wilderness.
Contemplate, regard, esp. in a particular way; imagine, esp. as a possibility or a future event; expect that. E19.
E. Bowen Sickness not having been envisaged, there was no sickroom. W. Golding I drew in my breath..as I envisaged the appearance I must have presented.
envisagement noun L19.